CVE-2020-2556 Business logic in Primavera P6 Professional Project Management

High 7.3 Published 15 Jan 2020 Updated 30 Sep 2024

Low-privileged attackers can modify or read critical data and cause partial denial of service in Oracle Primavera P6 via a business logic flaw requiring user interaction.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2020-2556?

CVE-2020-2556 is a high-severity vulnerability in Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, published on 15 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vulnerability in the Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management product of Oracle Construction and Engineering (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 16.2.0.0-16.2.19.0, 17.12.0.0-17.12.16.0, 18.8.0.0-18.8.16.0, 19.12.0.0 and 20.1.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management executes to compromise Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. Successful attacks require human interaction from a person other than the attacker and while the vulnerability is in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, attacks may significantly impact additional products. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data or all Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data as well as unauthorized read access to a subset of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management accessible data and unauthorized ability to cause a partial denial of service (partial DOS) of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.3 (Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-2556?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.

How do I fix CVE-2020-2556?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-2556 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-2556 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-2556 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-cch6-gwh8-r87f.